rFactor 2 Round 2 Mid Ohio Sports Car Course - Sun Jan 26, 2025

I like this track, one of my favs but forgot how intense it is. No time to think much and the car seemed more of a handful here than surfers paradise. Anyway, messy race for me, two offs where I couldn't slow enough to not hit the barrier and lost the front wing twice. Second time I was near the pit entry so took some fuel/tyres. Got a drive thru for speeding but turns out it was a stop/go so had to do it again My planned race pit strategy/tyres etc went out the window early on, its a hard track to try and think on the fly about plan B, C, D... etc.. Thought Id end up last but was handed some luck by others mishaps so was happy with 8th.

Sorry if I got in any lapper's way but cars appear pretty quick behind you sometimes round this track

Grats podium and great lap times up front. See you at the next one..

 

I was not the best qualifier as usual even if the times were tight, good 3 way braking battle on the first lap, glad we all came out of it in one piece, one of those hero or zero moments.

Decided to run a 3 stop race as the alternates drop off allot after 20 laps at this track even when looking after the tyres, after matej pitted after me on the 30min mark I knew it was a battle between a 3 stop and 2 stop strategy so had to drive like the wind as I knew it would be tight between us after my last stop which came true when I saw him pass me as I came out of the pits on my last stop but I was not too worried as knew I had fresher tyres and a decent amount of P2P left, decided to try the outside move at the end of the straight but was worried matej might understeer into me and wanted to avoid contact at all cost after the last race so gave lots of room but it put me on the marbles off the racing line and had a small trip on the grass, laughed it off as I knew there would be another chance available with my fresher tyres, this time chose the inside line as on the first lap which worked again, lesson learned.

Really impressed with Matejs pace, I thought I was looking after the tyres but he was doing a slightly better job getting 30 mins out of them whilst only loosing a few tenths per lap to me, but in the end the 3 stop strategy was the optimum one but not by much.

I thought the traffic might be an issue at this race but did not have a single bit of contact throughout the whole race which was a relief.

Well done to my team mate robin for getting a podium ahead of kostas which helps in the championship and a special mention to steady Ed Jones who kept his head whilst everyone else was loosing theirs and grabbed 6th place from the back!

 

Q: In the 3rd and last outing I pulled off the last right corner like never before or after, I got ~ -0,3s there and P1 it was! Great feeling it was, as Nick and Robin are so strong in Q
R: It really was an intense moment in first lap, going into that fast right hander in the middle of Robin and Nick! I was then confortably in P2, doing what I planned to do, saving the tyres and being consistant. Was surprised when I saw Nick pitting after a quarter of race distance. At that time I knew that if I can get the whole race without errors, I can get P1. First and second stints were great. In last 3rd I made a small mistake costing me 3s and then some problems with lapped cars with another 3s before Nick's box. Just before the end another for ~9s as I pushed a bit too much. Well, to win against such a strong competitors, I must have a perfect day. It wasn't far off. Really happy with getting a good setup, great Q lap and race pace! And again congrats to Nick for win!
See you all in 2 weeks